At 5:01 PM -0400 8/12/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 2:37 AM 8/13/96, David Kennedy wrote:
My mailer thinks the e$pam list pulled this from cypherpunks: <snip>
Wake up.
And for those who forward my stuff, please include appropriate disclaimers to your "spammees" that a) one should read things with an appreciation that a post may be tongue in cheek, b) that back-spamming to another list is not cool, and c) that I don't want to be bothered.
Yeah. What he said. I hope the cypherpunks list will accept my apologies. There are firm rules about this to e$pam subscribers, and, while I haven't had much occasion to enforce it lately, I might have to, which means kicking the offenders off e$pam. Strike one, Mr. Kennedy. The rule is, if you're on a list with derivative content, particularly one with as large a source-base as e$pam, do NOT reply directly to the source list, in this case cypherpunks. In the case of e$pam, there's a subsidiary discussion list, e$, which was set up for this purpose. Use it. e$ has even gotten to the point where it's generating its own traffic, now, which is nice. To e$pam readers, if you want to talk on cypherpunks, or cyberia, austrianecon, or any or the other 100 or so lists and newsgroups e$pam is filtered from, sign on to the source list itself, read the traffic there for a while, and *then* post something. In other words, become a *member* of the list, and have some manners. Again, I apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused to the cypherpunks list. BTW, I thought Tim's hoax was a good one, but, given that it hadn't shown up anywhere else on the net, (and congress isn't in session :-)), it was pretty easy to spot. It *did* give one pause, though. Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/